Sambizanga
Sarah Maldoror · 1972
Sarah Maldoror’s 1972 Sambizanga follows Maria’s search for her arrested husband Domingos across Luanda’s colonial prisons, intercut with his silent detention and death. Shot in the Congo with non-professional actors linked to African liberation movements, it adapts José Luandino Vieira’s novella into a stark, unsentimental record of early Angolan resistance — where political force resides in persistence, not proclamation.